Varnish is a web accelerator, which has been gaining a lot in popularity lately, as it can increase the speed of any site, at times even by one hundred percent, depending on the content. This tool is sometimes called a caching HTTP reverse proxy as well and is used to reduce the overall load on the server and to accelerate the browsing speed for the website visitors. Every time a visitor opens a page on a given Internet site, the web browser request is processed by the web server and the requested content is delivered as a response. If the Varnish accelerator is activated, it caches the web pages that the visitor opens and if any of them is loaded once more, it’s served by Varnish and not by the web server directly. The boost in the overall performance is due to the fact that the accelerator processes the web requests significantly faster than any web server, which results in much faster browsing speeds for the visitors. If any data is edited meanwhile, the cached web pages will also be updated the next time somebody tries to access them.
Varnish in Web Hosting
You can make use of Varnish’s potential and accelerate your sites’ load speed regardless of the web hosting package that you’ve selected and you can add and configure the data caching platform with several clicks of the mouse from the user-friendly GUI offered by our leading-edge Hepsia hosting Control Panel. In the meantime, you’ll be able to choose two separate things – how many Internet sites will use the Varnish platform, i.e. the number of instances, and how much info will be cached, in other words – the amount of system memory. The latter is available in increments of 32 megabytes and is not linked to the number of instances, so you can order more instances and less memory and the other way around. In case you have plenty of content on a specific website and you win plenty of site visitors, more memory will give you better results. You may also consider using a dedicated IP address for the Internet sites that will use the Varnish platform. Hepsia will offer you simple one-click controls for shutting down or rebooting any instance, for clearing the cache for any Internet site and for seeing elaborate system logs.
Varnish in Semi-dedicated Servers
The Linux semi-dedicated hosting service that we’re offering will allow you to use Varnish once your brand-new semi-dedicated account is active, as the caching platform comes by default. 64 MB of system memory will be assigned to Varnish the second your account is activated, so you can take advantage of this workload balancing software as soon as you launch your site. In case you need more system memory, you can order 32 megabytes at a time from the Hepsia Control Panel’s Upgrades section and it will be allocated to your semi-dedicated server instantly. You can also increase the number of the websites that use Varnish, or the so-called ‘instances’, which are not linked directly to the amount of memory that you use, which suggests that you will have more flexibility. The Varnish caching platform will greatly decrease the load on the server generated by your sites, so your website visitors can enjoy fast-opening pages. You’ll be able to manage Varnish without effort through your Hepsia Control Panel using quick-access controls. You’ll be able to start/stop any of the instances that you have, to clear the cached files associated with any of your Internet sites or to view system log files.
Varnish in VPS Servers
We offer Varnish with all of the Hepsia-managed VPS servers, so in case you obtain a VPS with this hosting Control Panel, you will be able to make use of the data caching platform at no additional fee. The Varnish platform can utilize different amounts of memory for data caching purposes based on the particular setup that you have chosen during the signup process, but in any case, this amount will not be less than several hundred MB. This is more than enough to boost the performance of several resource-requiring sites, so the better web page browsing speeds and the less load on the machine will be perceivable. The result may not be evident straight away, since the Varnish platform will need some time to cache the website content that users browse, but soon after you set it up, you will observe its full potential. This platform will allow you to use a less powerful Virtual Private Server and to give less money to get the same performance you would get with a more powerful machine without Varnish.
Varnish in Dedicated Servers
If you need a powerful web hosting solution and you purchase one of the Linux dedicated service that we are offering, you’ll be able to use the Varnish content caching platform to optimize the work of your Internet sites at no additional fee as long as the server is ordered with our next-gen Hepsia hosting Control Panel. Its simple-to-use interface will allow you to monitor platform processes, to delete the cached files or to reboot any instance with one click. The minimum amount of memory that the platform can employ to cache site content is three gigabytes, which is more than enough for an immense selection of resource-hungry sites, so your dedicated server will be able to cope with a tremendous system load while your Internet site visitors are enjoying a smooth browsing experience. Since your dedicated server will include several different dedicated IP addresses, you will be able to use Varnish’s maximum potential.